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I've heard that too, but 16 seems stable enough for me though?
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I heard that too. I sweem to be stuck in the high 240's for fsb:ram 1:1. I would be willing to try it out but I don't know how to flash to an older version.
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i have the same problem. that is the oc i had on my sp-94/tornado and now with wcing, i can raise the vcore without worrying about temps too much and i still can't get it stable at higher than 240, i actually did get it stable at 247 and it ran for over 14 hours, but then when i tried to do dual prime again it gave me errors and i think that was when i had bios 15. i gave up for now, but i really want to get higher since my temps jump like a degree or 2 when i up the vcore. at 1.675 my highest load temp was 53 in mbm, so take off 10 and thats about 42C. and idle was at 46-47.
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BIOS 16 got a bad rap because a couple of guys vapo chill at 4.2ghz lost a couple of points when they updated from 15 to 16. Also hand full of ppl had problems flashing their BIOS. I lost a few points on my mem OC on 16 so I went back to 15. On BIOS 15 my CorsairXL could do 258 1:1 2.5,3,3,7. On BIOS 16 the most I could get it to was 255 2.5,3,3,7
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In your sig. You've got those 3700EB's at 5:4. Won't they run at 260? Or do you prefer to run them at 208 so you can run tighter timings?
In your sig. You've got those 3700EB's at 5:4. Won't they run at 260? Or do you prefer to run them at 208 so you can run tighter timings?
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only 2.8vdimm so no chance of really running 260 fsb. going to do a vmod on my ic7 then i will definitely crank it up. besides i scored 5700mb on sandra with 208fsb so im in no real rush to crank it any higher. I have a thread "just received my EB "or something like that u can check out the screeny i made
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OK - I forgot about that 2.8v limit of that mobo - sorry. Can't find your thread. If you run across a link I'd like to look at it.situman said:
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yay bigstan memory guru! So it looks like you lost maybe 3 points, and we can both go up to about 3 under rated speed max. I am going to try some 4200 or 4400 as soon as I get paid and if i can go past 250 we will know it was our board, not memory. I will make a big post if it works out.
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yeah i'm giving up at 240, but i can run 245 if i use 2.9 mem. once i get some 4200 or 4400 you will be the first person to know if it helped. Also going to try putitng on a NB-1 to see if that helps.
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Sometimes in their hurry to fix something, they break something else. Just the way computer programming goes. Sometimes the best BIOS are the ones where there are not a lot of fixes. They just "oprimize the code' of a BIOS. That was what happened in 15. Then they will try to add something new in 16. It might take a revieion or two for them to get around to "optimizing" again.lilneel12 said:
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You already have 4000 mem. If you are running at 240, it is running under spec. Getting 4200~4400 will just make you mem even more out of spec. What is your back up plan if buying 4200 mem doesn't get you past 240?veryhumid said:yay bigstan memory guru! So it looks like you lost maybe 3 points, and we can both go up to about 3 under rated speed max. I am going to try some 4200 or 4400 as soon as I get paid and if i can go past 250 we will know it was our board, not memory. I will make a big post if it works out.
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well i suppose i will cry for a bit. Then, if that is with the NB cooler installed I will just quit. Put a quiet fan on my SP-94 and just let it go at 245 or whatever I can get. A vmod might help me out, but it's not worth it for me to take this apart and send it off unless I know 100% that is my problem. I really think it is my board or my mem, because my chip still gets 237 1:1 at stock volts. I'll just wait for another board/cpu combo that I think will do better and build another machine.
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same here, i am getting the new nb-1c and i'll see if that will let me push some more, but i also have a feeling its my powersupply, cause im defintally pushing more than or around my max(true430). my comp is quiet and my temps never went higher than 43C in this summer heat so i'll just deal with it till i get a new chip
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yeah i ran a 430 with my old 2.8C. unless you have a giant overclocked video card that should be plenty of power. I read something at toms hardware where they measured actual power usage running benchmarks with a P4 and lots of different video cards and the system never took more than 250 watts. so you should be fine that way. If you want to find the article it is under their review of the first geforce to have ddr3. just ordered the nb-1C today, we'll see how it goes.
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just got it in the mail today, nice and heavy. I will mount it tomorrow after work and see if i can get a stable 250 to run overnight BTW, I think i noticed a small improvement in overclock by going back to 15. seems i don't need as high voltages to be stable at certain frequencies in general. I don't have specific findings, i just get the feeling it requires less juice than before for a certain clock speed. not more than 2 MHz maybe, but noticeable. However there are lots of other factors like temperature, memory breaking in, board breaking in? so i can't say it will definitely help you but it can't hurt to try. pop in a floppy format it for a bootable dos cd and extract the bios executable from abit with winzip or winrar onto the floppy. then boot from it and type "runme" at the a: prompt. then let it go.
direct link to bios 15 (1.5) for ic7-max3 from abit: ftp://ftp.abit.com.tw/pub/download/bios/ic7-max3/ic7p15.exe
that is the file you extract to the floppy after it is formatted.
BTW, I think i noticed a small improvement in overclock by going back to 15. seems i don't need as high voltages to be stable at certain frequencies in general. I don't have specific findings, i just get the feeling it requires less juice than before for a certain clock speed. not more than 2 MHz maybe, but noticeable. However there are lots of other factors like temperature, memory breaking in, board breaking in? so i can't say it will definitely help you but it can't hurt to try. pop in a floppy format it for a bootable dos cd and extract the bios executable from abit with winzip or winrar onto the floppy. then boot from it and type "runme" at the a: prompt. then let it go. direct link to bios 15 (1.5) for ic7-max3 from abit: ftp://ftp.abit.com.tw/pub/download/bios/ic7-max3/ic7p15.exe
that is the file you extract to the floppy after it is formatted.
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